Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you'll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.
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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
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No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
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When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
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Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
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After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.
